It’s a double-edged sword really. Reginald VelJohnson (aka Carl Winslow aka THE black cop in the '08s/'90s) and James Avery made their careers being typecasted as rotund men, and likely wouldn’t have had the success they did otherwise.
On other hand, your health is paramount. Ideally, if every actor was svelte and healthy it wouldn’t really reflect the real world in which fat people do exist (unless it’s a movie in Denmark or something).
i remember reading that this particular scene was longer than intended. will smith improvised much of it, drawing from his own issues he had with his father. the hug wasn’t in the script either, that was all james avery RIP
I only found out he was shredder when I watched an old tmnt episode eight months ago. I knew it was him the moment I heard shredder speak. Shredder is Uncle phil on angry mode.